I can't help but share my latest fun moments from work.
There are a group of individuals that gather at work with a common interest. It's singing and playing guitar. Now, I know what you're thinking--am I involved in this?? The answer would be NO! I admire people that get together with common interests and support each other (home group plug : that's why i'm in a home group!). But the problem is that they are meeting to "Jam" in the middle of our office building.
I started this story with "fun moments" from work...well, it makes me laugh so hard to hear the reactions of the other people in the office while this is going on. Evidentally they have been asked to move from the last place in the office where they were meeting, and they have transplanted themselves into the conference room that boarders my cube area. The funniest part of it all to me is that they happened to pick the one conference room that shares a wall (and air duct might I add) with a guy on my team-Christian. Christian is a great guy who is completely the opposite of his name-to his own addmission by the way. He is hilariously witty and sarcastic, always adding a clever cut at the exact precise time. Not only is he a wiz kid computer guy and all around genius in all areas, he happens to be a musician as well. His style is more the screaming type of music that's really loud (I think it must work for his anger issues :-). Anyway-Christian entered my boss's office last week (while I was present) and said that he had to leave early because he has now entered his most horrific dream....He hears old men singing and playing country style music in his head...and he has now idea where it's coming from!
This of course was the newly transplanted musical group. Today, I have witnessed several groups clumping together in this area complaining about the noise and making funny comments about the lyrics of whatever song they happened to be singing at the moment (the latest was "Dead or alive"....they we hoping for dead!). Once of the girls that was complaining happened to have a meeting with a very important man in our company and mention what was going on. Evidentally, he called my boss, Rod, and told him to make them stop. So--Rod get's the glod star for the week. He stopped the distraction in our office that was effecting around 100 people...Good job, Rod!
I do feel sorry for these people, though. They of course mean no harm and were doing this during their lunch hour to relax...unfortunately, they'll have to move yet again. I'm thinking that the mall has picked up quite a bit lately with the addition of a few food places. Maybe they could set out a hat a make a little side $$ during their lunch hour?? Who knows!
Now-to begin my fun weekend! Pittsburgh tonight for some shopping and Melting Pot with the Griffith's...Tomorrow, making cupcakes for halloween (a haunted house to be exact!), and it's a Halloween Home Group on Sunday night--including a pumpkin carving contest! Fun times! I'm sure I'll have interesting pictures to post next week from this!
Friday, October 29, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
It's been a while
So yes, I apologize for my long hiatus from by blog. I have been busy, with all great things might I add, so sitting down at the computer for long enough to write about my time has been all but a distant thought!
Let's see...what's been going on....
I have been reorganizing a lot of things in my life to fit into my new role at Mylan. Of course, my job description has hardly changed, but there has been lots of paperwork and red tape getting switched over from a consultant to an employee. It's the little things that get me excited though-filling out forms, going to training meetings, getting colorful company manuals to read through. Yes...I am a nerd...I know. With all of this, I am really thankful for being able to be a real part of this company. Mylan does a lot of "giving" that most people are unaware of. They really are trying to make a difference by providing generic medications all over the world. It's a great company that I will enjoy supporting for as long as they'll have me.
My friend, Ashley, had a birthday a little over a week ago. We got to have a sort of scavenger hunt/surprise party for her on her lot of land that a house will one day be built on. Chad, her husband, took her on a trip down memory lane around Morgantown with the final destination being the party. It was lots of bonfire fun with a wonderful ice cream cake and fun games to round out the evening! I'm thinking we're going to have to have a lot more outdoor parties on that lot before they move in so that the loud noises that we make when we all get together will scare away the coyotes that live in the surrounding wilderness....we wouldn't want precious Zoie or Ziggy (their dogs) to disappear in the middle of the night...let alone their new baby..which won't be new anymore when they get around to building this place! Fun was had by all!
I am trying out a new budgeting tool for the remainder of year. It's based on the idea of a zero budget. The idea is that I allocate every single penny that we make (using a spreadsheet) so that at the end of the pay period, my "account" has a zero balance. This way, we know what we are spending our money on instead of just random costs that eat up your bank balance. Now, all of this money is not spent, it's just allocated. For example, savings groups (vacation, Christmas, new car, new house...you get the idea). All of the money that is actually spent on things is put into categories (much like a regular budget) to make sure that we're not spending more than what we want in each category. It's all alot of fun for me to play with-so I'm hoping that I can keep it up and we can really use the money that God provides us with in the wisest manner. After all--"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much" Luke 16:10. So...hoping to get this right :-)
This weekend will be filled with Home Group tonight with some game playing (of course...cause that's just what we do). Adam and I are singing this weekend at church, so that will take up a lot of the rest of the weekend. I get to sing a Francesca Batistelli song (Unpredictable) that I really enjoy-so that will be fun. She has an amazing voice and a great album of songs to match. I highly recommend it! We are also considering painting our office (like we've been planning on doing for around 2 years now). We did take the next step and bought the paint, so now we're stuck and have to do it...finally. Maybe this weekend will be the lucky one...who knows :-)
Soo--lots of random thoughts, but I must leave you with one more.
"About a month ago I got a cactus. A week later, it died. Unfortunately, that means I'm less nurturing than a desert."
Let's see...what's been going on....
I have been reorganizing a lot of things in my life to fit into my new role at Mylan. Of course, my job description has hardly changed, but there has been lots of paperwork and red tape getting switched over from a consultant to an employee. It's the little things that get me excited though-filling out forms, going to training meetings, getting colorful company manuals to read through. Yes...I am a nerd...I know. With all of this, I am really thankful for being able to be a real part of this company. Mylan does a lot of "giving" that most people are unaware of. They really are trying to make a difference by providing generic medications all over the world. It's a great company that I will enjoy supporting for as long as they'll have me.
My friend, Ashley, had a birthday a little over a week ago. We got to have a sort of scavenger hunt/surprise party for her on her lot of land that a house will one day be built on. Chad, her husband, took her on a trip down memory lane around Morgantown with the final destination being the party. It was lots of bonfire fun with a wonderful ice cream cake and fun games to round out the evening! I'm thinking we're going to have to have a lot more outdoor parties on that lot before they move in so that the loud noises that we make when we all get together will scare away the coyotes that live in the surrounding wilderness....we wouldn't want precious Zoie or Ziggy (their dogs) to disappear in the middle of the night...let alone their new baby..which won't be new anymore when they get around to building this place! Fun was had by all!
I am trying out a new budgeting tool for the remainder of year. It's based on the idea of a zero budget. The idea is that I allocate every single penny that we make (using a spreadsheet) so that at the end of the pay period, my "account" has a zero balance. This way, we know what we are spending our money on instead of just random costs that eat up your bank balance. Now, all of this money is not spent, it's just allocated. For example, savings groups (vacation, Christmas, new car, new house...you get the idea). All of the money that is actually spent on things is put into categories (much like a regular budget) to make sure that we're not spending more than what we want in each category. It's all alot of fun for me to play with-so I'm hoping that I can keep it up and we can really use the money that God provides us with in the wisest manner. After all--"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much" Luke 16:10. So...hoping to get this right :-)
This weekend will be filled with Home Group tonight with some game playing (of course...cause that's just what we do). Adam and I are singing this weekend at church, so that will take up a lot of the rest of the weekend. I get to sing a Francesca Batistelli song (Unpredictable) that I really enjoy-so that will be fun. She has an amazing voice and a great album of songs to match. I highly recommend it! We are also considering painting our office (like we've been planning on doing for around 2 years now). We did take the next step and bought the paint, so now we're stuck and have to do it...finally. Maybe this weekend will be the lucky one...who knows :-)
Soo--lots of random thoughts, but I must leave you with one more.
"About a month ago I got a cactus. A week later, it died. Unfortunately, that means I'm less nurturing than a desert."
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Pictures for the other blog
Here's Lexi where I found her....
And then here are a couple pictures of the cupcakes I made for Ashley's birthday (which is tomorrow, now! Happy Birthday Ashley!)
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, read my last blog.
Have a lovely day :-)
And then here are a couple pictures of the cupcakes I made for Ashley's birthday (which is tomorrow, now! Happy Birthday Ashley!)
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, read my last blog.
Have a lovely day :-)
Monday, October 11, 2010
New things
New thing number one : I officially started my position at Mylan as a Full Time employee with benefits today! Yay for awesome benefits and thank the Lord that I don't have to deal with estimated taxes and private insurance anymore!
New thing number two : We started a new home group and are having a blast getting know the couples involved. Very exciting!
New thing number three : Lexi has started jumping onto our bathroom counter...shame on her. While I was getting ready for work one morning, I found her lounging in the sink. I will add a picture as soon as I swipe it off of Adam's iPod.
New thing number four : my good friend, Ashley Griffith, has a birthday this week and I found this neat cupcake idea to mimick a fabric pattern. Ashley is a big fan of cool fabrics and makes incredible things with them (you should see the diaper bag she made for herself, ADORABLE with tons of very useful pockets-my favorite part). So I tried out new cupcake designs. This I will also post when I get ahold of Adam's toy :-)
New thing number five through three thousand : Recipes
So most of you know that I like to try new recipes. I have a small obsession with cookbooks and can even get Adam on board if it has pictures....he can't judge the recipe just from looking at the ingredients. Not only do I like to get cookbooks, I also get recipes from magazines and online newsletters that I subscribe to. If you're looking for some that have quality recipes - my top two emails would be Taste of Home (because you can look at the ratings and see how many people would make each recipe a second time--very insightful:-) and then Better Homes and Garden also has a weekly email that is very good.
I've had to create an entire organization system around keeping these recipes in good order. By the way, today's blog will be about recipes and organization, so if this interests you in no way, you can just go on about your day without finishing this blog-I'll never know!
Now-with my cookbooks, I like to go completely through them when I first get it and mark the recipes that are actually do-able. You know-with ingredients that aren't weird and that don't take some ridiculous amount of time to concoct. I either dog-ear the pages, or use sticky page markers to do this (which can be made from cutting small post-it notes into small tabs. Luckily-I used to work at a medical office and have absorbed thousands of sticky notes for my personal collection. You'd be surprised at the shear quantity of junk that medical offices receive from pharmaceutical companies. We were constantly throwing out stuff to keep our office stash to a reasonable amount. So of course, I had to find some use for some of those items--thus my cookbook marking system.
Anyway-I mark them so that I can quickly flip through whichever book I want, and then pick a few meals from each to try and add to my grocery list. My magazine and printed out recipes of course have to have an entirely different approach to make the useful! I have 4 notebooks that I manage for this purpose : 2 notebooks contain recipes that I have tried and are keeping for future use, and 2 are for organizing the recipes that I have saved that I haven't gotten to try yet. The two are split into "Chicken" and "Other"....turns out there are way more chicken recipes than anything else...don't judge me...chicken is cheap and easy :-) Oh-and did I mention I also have two other file folders-One for recipes that need filing, and the other for the recipes that I definitely want to try next. (There's another one that I keep with my meal calendar with the recipes that I have bought ingredients for and will be making soon.......again...don't judge).
The notebooks are divided into different categories (such as ground beef, other beef, pork, desserts, pasta...etc.) with pages to divide that I designed with whatever Microsoft Word clip art happened to look appealing to me that day. I love just flipping through and imagining having the time to make all of these wonderful sounding meals. That being the key factor - TIME.
So all of this organizational information about me to say, "I like new things". I really do. Although, I tried a new chocolate cupcake recipe this past weekend and it was not good :-) Oh well--you win some, you loose some.
New thing number two : We started a new home group and are having a blast getting know the couples involved. Very exciting!
New thing number three : Lexi has started jumping onto our bathroom counter...shame on her. While I was getting ready for work one morning, I found her lounging in the sink. I will add a picture as soon as I swipe it off of Adam's iPod.
New thing number four : my good friend, Ashley Griffith, has a birthday this week and I found this neat cupcake idea to mimick a fabric pattern. Ashley is a big fan of cool fabrics and makes incredible things with them (you should see the diaper bag she made for herself, ADORABLE with tons of very useful pockets-my favorite part). So I tried out new cupcake designs. This I will also post when I get ahold of Adam's toy :-)
New thing number five through three thousand : Recipes
So most of you know that I like to try new recipes. I have a small obsession with cookbooks and can even get Adam on board if it has pictures....he can't judge the recipe just from looking at the ingredients. Not only do I like to get cookbooks, I also get recipes from magazines and online newsletters that I subscribe to. If you're looking for some that have quality recipes - my top two emails would be Taste of Home (because you can look at the ratings and see how many people would make each recipe a second time--very insightful:-) and then Better Homes and Garden also has a weekly email that is very good.
I've had to create an entire organization system around keeping these recipes in good order. By the way, today's blog will be about recipes and organization, so if this interests you in no way, you can just go on about your day without finishing this blog-I'll never know!
Now-with my cookbooks, I like to go completely through them when I first get it and mark the recipes that are actually do-able. You know-with ingredients that aren't weird and that don't take some ridiculous amount of time to concoct. I either dog-ear the pages, or use sticky page markers to do this (which can be made from cutting small post-it notes into small tabs. Luckily-I used to work at a medical office and have absorbed thousands of sticky notes for my personal collection. You'd be surprised at the shear quantity of junk that medical offices receive from pharmaceutical companies. We were constantly throwing out stuff to keep our office stash to a reasonable amount. So of course, I had to find some use for some of those items--thus my cookbook marking system.
Anyway-I mark them so that I can quickly flip through whichever book I want, and then pick a few meals from each to try and add to my grocery list. My magazine and printed out recipes of course have to have an entirely different approach to make the useful! I have 4 notebooks that I manage for this purpose : 2 notebooks contain recipes that I have tried and are keeping for future use, and 2 are for organizing the recipes that I have saved that I haven't gotten to try yet. The two are split into "Chicken" and "Other"....turns out there are way more chicken recipes than anything else...don't judge me...chicken is cheap and easy :-) Oh-and did I mention I also have two other file folders-One for recipes that need filing, and the other for the recipes that I definitely want to try next. (There's another one that I keep with my meal calendar with the recipes that I have bought ingredients for and will be making soon.......again...don't judge).
The notebooks are divided into different categories (such as ground beef, other beef, pork, desserts, pasta...etc.) with pages to divide that I designed with whatever Microsoft Word clip art happened to look appealing to me that day. I love just flipping through and imagining having the time to make all of these wonderful sounding meals. That being the key factor - TIME.
So all of this organizational information about me to say, "I like new things". I really do. Although, I tried a new chocolate cupcake recipe this past weekend and it was not good :-) Oh well--you win some, you loose some.
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